Roon Aquisition: Will This Help Or Hamper?


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Anyone know how many lifetime subscription holders there are, and/or as a percentage of total subscribers? Just curious, and happy to have invested early.

Also, they will make software improvements to their hardware before anyone else's. And there might be features only avaible to their hardware. They will definately charge more for more features above their so called 'life-time' software plan.

It will definitely help Harmon sell more their DAC/Streamer with built-in Roon support.

There's a comparison with the photography world here. I'd say it's a safe bet that the change of ownership will be used to start to obsolete perpetual licences using the model which has become prevalent in photography i.e. the original software will continue to work - for a time a least - but additional features will have to be paid for and once there is a major computer OS change the "legacy" software will not be updated to be compatible.